New wing for Weathersfield students to open in February

January 15, 2014 at 12:02a.m.

MINERAL RIDGE

The Weathersfield school district’s seventh- and eighth-graders will be moving out of trailers, or portable classrooms they have been using since September, and into their new classrooms at the high school next month.

The move is scheduled for Feb. 18, when the 160 students will move into a new wing of nine classrooms, which have been built out of what was formerly the wood shop and metal shop, schools Superintendent Damon Dohar said at Monday’s school board meeting.

The wing is in the back of the building.

Plans for the demolition of the middle school building on state Route 46 will be made soon, Dohar said, and bids for technology and furniture will also be sought in the near future as work continues on the district’s $26 million Ohio School Facilities Commission grant program to include remodeling at the high school and Seaborn Elementary and the planned razing of the middle school.

Dohar thanked Joseph Lane for a “generous gift” from him and the Lane family, a donation of the final installment of a $500,000 pledge for the Joe Lane Sports Complex.